Folly Quote by Horace

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

— Horace

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

— William Shakespeare

“Like priests with their backs to the world and their faces to the altar, the postmodern protectors of shame need to turn around, face…

— Wesley J. Wildman

“Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).”

— J'son M. Lee

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

— Josh Billings

“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.”

— Andreas Eschbach

“This is the shame of the woman whose hand hides her smile because her teeth are so bad, not the grand self-hate that leads…

— Brené Brown

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

— Plautus

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of…

— Charles Kingsley

“stultorum infnitus est numerus (the number of fools is infinite)”

— Ecclesiastes

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory,…

— Blaise Pascal